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Samuel Johnson Quotes

«Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Rejection | Keywords: rejections, sturdy
«Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Ability, Trouble | Keywords: diligence
«Those that have loved longest love best.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Love
«Words are but the signs of ideas.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Words
«I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.»
«When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: escaped
«A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.»
«Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: unsuitable
«The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: World | Keywords: grand, staircase
«A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him»